🎃☠️Hooptober 2020: Film 15/67💀🎃

“Everybody’s some kind of freak”

All of the times I forgot this was a horror/vampire movie, I was loving it. All the times it reminded me again, I loved it even more. Much less about any kind of narrative as it is about the universal feeling of finding someone who wants to spend forever with you and accepting you for all your fucked up flaws. Watched this right after Spring (2014) and it’s one of the best accidental double features I’ve done in awhile.

Ganja & Hess is as unabashedly black as it is unabashedly experimental and it’s all the better for it. Scenes flow like montages. African chants drown out dialogue. Prolonged Baptist church scenes filled with gospel songs seem to offer up moments of reflection on the contradictory nature of a vampire who follows a higher power.

Once you’re able to abandon the search for a distinct plot, you can fully immerse yourself in the auditory and visual spell this whole experience casts over you. Loved it, but might have to give this a rewatch when I can toke up and ponder this much more deeply in the abstract.